BROWN v. FLETCHER

Nos. 454, 455.

235 U.S. 589 (1915)

BROWN, AND SCHERMERHORN, TRUSTEE UNDER WILL OF CUNNINGHAM, v. FLETCHER, TRUSTEE OF BRAKER. PROVIDENT LIFE AND TRUST COMPANY AS EXECUTOR OF WOOD v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 5, 1915.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles H. Burr, with whom Mr. Frederic W. Frost, Mr. Perry D. Trafford and Mr. H. Gordon McCouch were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. William P.S. Melvin, with whom Mr. Safford A. Crummey was on the brief, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE LAMAR, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellants brought suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for the purpose of recovering from the Trustee an interest in a trust estate which had been sold, transferred and assigned by Conrad Morris Braker, the beneficiary. The complainants were citizens and residents of Pennsylvania. Both...

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